Alea Iacta Est

On this episode of The AIE Podcast…

Mkallah: Here ye, here ye, you are all invited to the WOW Classic craft faire!

Tetsemi: MFN stands for Mandalorian fun night? Yeah it does!

Mkallah: AIE is undaunted by event delays!

Tetsemi: Ishgard restoration for crafting fun!

Mkallah: And, we have Grebog here to talk to us about AIE in STO!

All that and more coming up right now…

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AIE News

AIE Discord

Community

Where the fun is mandatory but the attendance is not.

Sunday – STO 8:30 pm Eastern

Streaming and guild podcast news

A server on fire, cartel market notes, and story breakdown for Onslaught. These topics and more this week from the SWTOR Escape Podcast crew.

SWTOR ESCAPE POD CAST 317: GIVING MERIDIAN SOME LATITUDE

Keith checks in with a producer letter, PvP Season 12 starts… on accident, the Mandalorian drops, and we dive into the Corellia Flashpoint.

Working Class Nerds (NSFW)

Marcus and Nick sit down and discuss the craziness of their lives AND their first impression on SWTOR’s 6.0 Expansion: Onslaught!

WoW

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If your WoW Classic main is caught up on professions, you are welcome to bring an alt to work on one! We have a bunch of guildies who like to help each other but that are stubborn to accept the help! And we do not have many Artisan level mats this time (due to limited gathering time, and max levels are using or selling them for mount money etc)

WoW Classic – AIE Craft Faire

For NOOB raid tonight, we are doing either the Anniversary Raid or the Time Walking Raid

SWTOR

Speaking of operations, we have a new team that meets on Sunday nights on the Imperial side. Their team name is TACO (Total Annihilation Clearing Ops). They are off to a good start, but are still in need of one DPS. If you would like to run with TACO on Sunday nights, contact Albus via discord.

This past Tuesday, the guild celebrated the launch of the first episode of The Mandalorian by having a bounty hunter-themed MFN. We dressed up in our best mando armor and had a beach party (of course). Afterwards, we roamed the galaxy wreaking havoc on world bosses. Discussions of the show can be had in the newly reopened Star Wars Spoilers discord channel. We also had a little birthday party for guildie Thaan, sponsored by his two sons. It was a great MFN overall.

FFXIV

Abo and crew are looking for more people to run on Tuesday and Thursday raiding, no experience required.

We’d love you to be in the FC, but if you are committed elsewhere but are on the Crystal Datacenter, you are welcome to come along.

There is a Fellowship and Cross-world linkshell, as well as the #ffxiv channel in Discord.

Oh, and join us for Copied Factory runs if you are looking for that 2B glamour. We can help you through the encounters, and you will have less competition to get that cosmetic.

Plus the raid is still totally awesome.

ESO

LOTRO

There is stuff in the planning stages no official dates of upcoming guild events. Keep an eye in the #lotro channel for upcoming events

And with that, let’s get back to Grebog and find out what’s going on in STO!

GAME NEWS

They have added another Fed and KDF ship, the Strike Wing Escorts. And something that is a strike wing has to have a shuttle bay to hold you wingmen.

And as always, they are always adding more content, like about a week ago, they added three more patrol systems. Kinbar, Nassordin, and Zahl are the newest patrols added.

Fleet Holdings: The fleet is doing great, but as always can use more duty officers and a few other resources.

The colony is working toward completing Tier II in all branches, including the core.

Lifetime subscription sale is still going. You have until November 21st to get $100 off. This brings it down to $199.99. And if you are going to spend a decent amount of time in STO, I highly recommend it as you will get your money back just on the 500 zen a month stipend. This is not counting the veteran ships, playable Talaxian, and so much more.

Black Friday is coming and there are always sales from zen bonuses, to zen store discounts.

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If you have a question or comment about our show, you can email us at [email protected]. You can also follow us on Twitter. The show is at @aiepodcast. Mew is at @themewkow. Mkallah is at @cyberwaif,and Tetsemi is at @ivorytiger. We record live with video every other Sunday at 8pm Eastern/5pm Pacific. You can join the chatroom and play along with us on our website at https://aie-guild.org/podcast-live-stream/ and our Discord server for chat at https://aie-guild.info/discord . Our theme was composed by the amazing Andrew Allen, follow him at @keyswithsoul! or visit his website http://keyswithsoul.com !

And now it’s time to play all of the great AIE member segment we received this week, including…

Overly Dramatic News – @HuntsTheWind

Next time, we’ll be doing out end of year wrapup! So until then, AIE…

– This is Tetsemi

And this has been… The AIE Podcast.

On this episode of The AIE Podcast…

Tetsemi: Get out with Outer Worlds

Mewkow: There may be some Blizzard news

Mkallah: Get ready to raid for the craft faire

Tetsemi: Onslaught is Amazing

Mewkow: And we have Kini and Sparrow here to talk about ESO, probably some Fall Out, and fishing!

All that and more coming up right now…

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Ok, we’ll be digging into Elder Scrolls Online shortly, but first, let’s cover this week’s news…

AIE News

Community

Where the fun is mandatory but the attendance is not.

Sunday – STO 8:30 pm Eastern

Streaming and Podcast News

Onslaught, Onslaught, Onslaught it’s a, wait for it… Game Changer.

SWTOR Escape Pod Cast 315: Gears Of Star War

Patch 6.0a has some fixes, still some bugs out in the wild, and gear progression tips and tricks.

Working Class Nerds – Episode 56: Holly Fields

Marcus and Nick got the chance to interview Holly Fields, the world renown voice actress and voice of Nadia Grell! Hopefully you enjoy the episode as much as they did recording it! You can find Holly on Twitter @HollyFields1 and on Instagram @holly_fields1

NOMADS

Diablo IV was announced at Blizzcon and is a much darker version of Diablo, more like Diablo II in tone and graphically play. It will also be an open world, so much so, that you will need mounts to travel through the world. There is a hub city where you can meet other players, show off your armor/weapons as well as a PvP area.

WoW

Blizzcon Wrap Up

Level squish is coming, Level 120 becomes level 50, and you’ll level 50-60 in Shadowlands. Levels 1-10 will be in the race specific starting area OR you can choose to level in the new level 1-10 zone that people new to the game will also start in.

Once you level 10, you’ll go visit Chromie and be given the choice of which expansion you want to level through. You can choose Mists of Pandaria, and you will level 10-50 in Pandaria, with the option to move to another expansion, however you will start at the beginning of the story of that expansion.

Your first character through Shadowlands will have to do all the zones, but once you finish the story, any alts will start with all endgame content unlocked at level 50 and can start progressing through it immediately. They can also choose which zone they want to level in, unlike your first character which will be going through zones in a specific order.

If you want to read a ton of good write-ups, visit https://blizzardwatch.com/2019/11/03/blizzcon-2019-roundup/ and enjoy!

WoW Classic

WoW Classic – AIE Craft Faire

On Sunday November 10th from 1pm Server/Eastern Time until done, Tynchal is organizing a Craft Faire Mats “Raid” beginning at Camp Tarajo in The Southern Barrens. We need lots of Light and Medium Leathers, so we’ll sweep both sides of The Gold Road. This works best to have “tanks” killing and looting with skinners following behind cleaning up. Depending on the “tanks” strength, a skinner/healer would be welcome. Please comment here with your abilities if you can attend. The Camp Tarajo plan is to work all the way toward Razorfen Crawl, whacking pig men as well as beasts. Then up the other side of The Gold Road, starting with the excavation site and all the way up to The Northern Barrens finding harpies, kolkars, more pig men and beasts, beasts, beasts. If there are enough raiders, the plan is to split up into areas. We should be able to gather cloth as well as LW mats and anyone who is a flower picker (lots of Briarthorn) or miner can pick and dig undisturbed. Come one, come all! Tynchal’s CF bank alts will all be in Rachet at the bank to accept LW mats. Hope to see you at Camp T!

SWTOR

Leveling from 70 to 75 can be accomplished through the story and does not take long at all. By the end of the story, you will have full 268 gear. Equip every upgrade you get so that the gearing system gives you more upgrades!

The launch went pretty smoothly with only one server restart about an hour after launch. Not to say there haven’t been bugs–Like the Imperial travel option that lands you in a Republic base! Or the bug where the group finder puts your 8 man team into a 16 man Operation. Fun times!

Crafting and crew skills also got a bit of an overhaul. Crafting is truly not for the faint of heart this time around even though it was tweaked somewhat after feedback on the public test server.

Players can now purchase the HK-55 chapter from the Cartel Market. It gives you access to a special chapter of gameplay and then account-wide access to HK-55 as a companion.

During MFN on launch day, the guild concentrated on leveling. That weekend Marcus put together an opsalong to help everyone with gearing. Throughout the week we’ve been running flashpoints to that same end.

MEGA this month will be on Friday November 15th at 9PM Eastern where we will do Onslaught stuff!

Ops teams are looking forward to trying out the new operation, “The Nature of Progress”, when we get our gear levels up. But, in the meantime there is a lot to do!

BCavanagh has updated the Conquest calculator for 6.0 – https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1GoP6oVUROvpujs70ro6pSP3yH-Ez_zRYGnyEVViWEs8/edit?usp=sharing

FFXIV

Patch 5.1 has hit and a ton of new features were added for solo and group play.

1) New MSQ quests including the new dungeon, The Grand Cosmos.

2) the 1st 24-player raid, inspired from Nier Automata, The Copied Factory. This raid will be a future event at the MFN coming soon and this raid is AWESOME!!!

3) Hades Extreme is now available for higher end raiders. It’s difficult is in-between eden savage 2 and 3. Coming soon to a Thursday night raid night.

4) Put the crafting to use to help out other FC members or help with the FC submarine craft! 10 new zones for the FC sub to explore has been added. Check out the workshop in the FC house to see how you can help out.

5) New Beast Tribe Daily quests. Help faeries, get loot. XP scales from 70-80, so a great alt job leveling mechanic.

6) New performance updates! This is the custom music feature in the game to show off player created music. New instruments, a new music trainer to show you how to play some fan-favorite songs, and an ensemble mode to play music synced as a group. Time to get the band back together!

7) New Fellowship system! These are groups, up to 1000 members (far greater than linkshells, or even FC’s) that allow for cross server communication, polls, posts, discussions, and announcements. Drop by the #ffxiv channel to get an invite. Since this is not server or FC membership dependent, you can still join to hear about AIE events even if you are committed to another FC. You still need to be on the Crystal data center however.

STO

Lifetime subscription sale going on now until Nov 21st. $100 off, so it is currently $199.99.

Also, until November 14th you can create Gamma Recruits again. This gives you added rewards for meeting various goals. The rewards are account wide for most of the rewards.

Also, black friday is coming, so if you have had your heart set on a ship or something else in the C-store, every year there are sales around black Friday. Time to buy more ships than you know what to do with…

EVE

Speaking of Eve, or those to play Eve, Huck’s daughter is currently in labor so he’s gonna be a first time Grandpa! Sounds like Grandpa Huck is gonna need some Isk to buy diapers!

GW2

In case you haven’t finished the achievements yet, the running Shadows of the Mad King Halloween event ends on Nov 5th around noon PST

And from the last Arenanet livestream, we have been told that the first chapter of the Icebrood Saga, “Whisper In The Dark” is due for release on November 19th

LOTRO

And with that, let’s get back to Dankinia and Sparrow and find out what’s going on in Elder Scrolls Online.

GAME NEWS

The Witches festival was extended an extra week and the usual MFN mentions.

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Dankinia can be found on Twitter @Dankinia and on Twitch at https://twitch.tv/dankinia

If you have a question or comment about our show, you can email us at [email protected]. You can also follow us on Twitter. The show is at @aiepodcast. Mew is at @themewkow. Mkallah is at @cyberwaif,and Tetsemi is at @ivorytiger. We record live with video every other Sunday at 8pm Eastern/5pm Pacific. You can join the chatroom and play along with us on our website at https://aie-guild.org/podcast-live-stream/ and our Discord server for chat at https://aie-guild.info/discord . Our theme was composed by the amazing Andrew Allen, follow him at @keyswithsoul! or visit his website http://keyswithsoul.com !

And now it’s time to play all of the great AIE member segment we received this week, including…

Ask Buxley – @AskBuxley

Next time, we’ll be talking to Someone in One of the Games AIE plays in. So until then, AIE…

– This is Mkallah

And this has been… The AIE Podcast.

On this episode of The AIE Podcast…

Mkallah: Join AIE for Blizzcon, virtually and in person

Tetsemi: Something is going down in Krasus’ Landing!

Mewkow: MORE FFXIV News

Mkallah: Dragonhold has a hold on ESO

Tetsemi: And, we have Max and Sema who are here to talk to us about AIE in SWTOR

All that and more coming up right now…

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Ok, we’ll be digging into SWTOR shortly, but first, let’s cover this week’s news…

AIE News

Community

Where the fun is mandatory but the attendance is not.

Sunday – STO 8:30 pm Eastern

Streaming and Guild Podcast News

New York Cantina wrap-up; Merc/Commando 6.0 Overview; and a live tour of Mek-Sha on the PTS

SWTOR Escape Pod Cast 313: Prepared, You Are Not

Working Class Nerds

Marcus and Nick are joined by famous SWTOR streamer Kogass and Dr. SWTOR of the Ootinicast Podcast to discuss their adventure in NYC at the Star Wars Community Cantina. They break down all of the juicy details regarding the upcoming 6.0 expansion, and listen to soundbites directly from the cantina!

Blizzcon

Keep an eye on the https://aie-guild.org blog for more details.

Virtual Blizzcon – @Syryne and @Turarts

Mostly likely we will have one for opening ceremony and mostly likely one for final concert.

Others may pop up, but we can’t say for sure without the published schedule of events/panels, so keep an eye on the https://aie-guild.org blog for posts.

We will have a #blizzcon voice channel for the events and for virtually hanging out during Blizzcon.

NOMADS

WoW

Travel across Azeroth and beyond to reunite a little ghost with her favorite toy, wand and flower crown while fighting off super creepy evil…. things! ??

Meet Gustytail at Krasus’ Landing in Legion Dalaran at 8pm Server on Friday, October 25th! #AIEGuild

Host:

Noob Raid is every Saturday night at 11pm EST. Any one with a level 120 is welcome to join us as we continue to slay bosses in Eternal Palace. We are 7/8 now and continue to have fun, laugh a lot, and take predictions on how many times Kini will demonstrate her epic floor tanking skills.

WoW Classic

WoW Classic – AIE Craft Faire

Date: Sunday, November 17th, 2019

See the above link for more details and contact @Nevermore in game or in AIE Discord with any questions.

AIEMounts brought to you by the Eve Online branch of AIE. Yes, we can triple your ISK!

SWTOR

FFXIV

ESO

MFN is till every Friday night at 9pm est. We run dungeons, do zone clears of skyshards, kill world bosses, and take part in events.

The next event should be the Witches Festival which will probably have an exp buff as well as the berries and feather for the Indrik mounts.

STO

EVE

GW2

LOTRO

And with that, let’s get back to Max and Sema and find out what’s going on in SWTOR.

GAME NEWS

On Saturday of this week, AIE will be involved in an epic Operations crawl where loot will fall like rain. Seriously, there is a lot of loot to be had. The ops are synched to level 70, so you won’t have to get to max level to join in. The new Operation, which is a longer term goal, will be set for level 75.

Tonight and tomorrow (Sunday and Monday) are the last two days of a galaxy-changing cartel market sale. You can get deals on character names, slots and appearance options, decorations for player housing, companions, pets, dyes, armors, and lastly, unlocks. If you have that toy (or emote, or light saber crystal,or or or)you love to use, but have not unlocked for all your characters, you still have time. The sale lasts until Monday night.

Optional topics depending on where the conversation goes:

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If you have a question or comment about our show, you can email us at [email protected]. You can also follow us on Twitter. The show is at @aiepodcast. Mew is at @themewkow. Mkallah is at @cyberwaif,and Tetsemi is at @ivorytiger. We record live with video every other Sunday at 8pm Eastern/5pm Pacific. You can join the chatroom and play along with us on our website at https://aie-guild.org/podcast-live-stream/ and our Discord server for chat at https://aie-guild.info/discord . Our theme was composed by the amazing Andrew Allen, follow him at @keyswithsoul! or visit his website http://keyswithsoul.com !

And now it’s time to play all of the great AIE member segment we received this week, including…

No submission this week, but we’re always open for submissions.

Next time, we’ll be talking to Dankinia and Guest in ESO. So until then, AIE…

– This is Mewkow

And this has been… The AIE Podcast.

On this episode of The AIE Podcast…

Mewkow: That’s a lot of show notes …

Mkallah: Your destiny awaits

Tetsemi: Its a classic craft faire

Mewkow: The dragon rises

Mkallah: And we have Abovan and Durus who are here to talk to us about AIE in FFXIV

All that and more coming up right now…

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Ok, we’ll be digging into FFXIV shortly, but first, let’s cover this week’s news…

AIE News

Community

Where the fun is mandatory but the attendance is not.

Sunday – STO 8:30 pm Eastern

Streaming and guild podcast news

More tuning of the Nature of Progress Operation; Swtorista and Xam Xam interviews; A look back at Macrobinoculars

SWTOR Escape Pod Cast 311: Zen And The Art Of Crafting Maintenance

PTS updates continue; A day in the life of Sorcs and Sages; Crafting in 6.0 with special guest, Zen.

Working Class Nerds next episode will have sound bites from the devs from the SWTOR Cantina.

NOMADS

Destiny 2 is now on the Steam Store and the core game is F2P. Prior expansions are now available as DLC.

You can reach the “soft cap” light level in the game with the F2P version.

AIE Clan may be joined by submitting a request via https://www.bungie.net/en/ClanV2?groupid=2122972

Have any questions, feel free to ask in AIE Discord.

WoW

Battle for Azeroth – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDzPkTEMBgc

It’s a 23 minute compilation of all the cinematics from Battle for Azeroth so far, but don’t watch until you’ve played through the 8.2.5 content.

Dark Moon Faire is coming this week, so polish up your professions, get your prizes, and get that rep/xp boost for your alts that you’re leveling.

Alliance news. HFO raid team is taking a break until the next tier so people have time to play Classic. Anyone that is interested in joining and doing things on Friday nights, should ping myself or @Harruq in AIE Discord so we can add their names to the list.

Wow Classic

AIE Craft Faire

We need all the mats… ALL not just cloth which we have a good foundation from because of people donating for bags to giveaway.

We specifically need Co-Captains for Blacksmithing and Mining. Everyone is welcome to help be gatherers, but if anyone wants to volunteer to help for a specific team they can contact Nevermore in game or in AIE Discord.

WoW Classic – AIEMounts

We have 155 gold in donations from 5 AIE members and so far a single loan of 45 gold to Halftusk to obtain his raptor mount.

SWTOR

Also, the final PTS achievement is now available for players to earn. If you weren’t able finish the previous achievement, don’t worry. You can continue to work on it throughout this phase as well.

The New York Cantina was this weekend! AIEers including Max, Zen, BC, Marcus, Nick, and Dr. Swtor attended as well as many players from the SWTOR community including Intisar and Kogass. They spent the evening hanging out with the dev team and meeting other players. Zen even got a brunch group together Saturday morning at the Skylight Diner.

FFXIV

ESO

The new Prologue quests are considered part of the base game, so they will be available for everyone when they go live and they lead to the events that will take place in the upcoming Dragonhold DLC that will be out in Q4.

In addition, during the current event, you can earn 2 event tickets per day. Any monster in Elsweyr has a chance to drop one and a boss monster is a guaranteed drop for 1.

EVE

GW2

LOTRO

The guild is continuing to walk some players through the starting areas

And with that, let’s get back to Abovan and Durus and find out what’s going on in FFXIV.

GAME NEWS

Patch 5.1, Vows of Virtue, Deeds of Cruelty, will have…

New Main Scenario Quests

The first act of the YoRHa: Dark Apocalypse raid series, starting with “The Copied Factory”. This raid is a collaboration between the FFXIV designers and the NieR:Automata designers to create a spiritual sequel to the NieR:Automata series. This will be the 24-player raid series, similar to the Crystal Tower, Ivaliace, and Void Ark series in previous expansions.

New crafter and gather quests as we get questslines to help rebuild Ishgard, from the Heavensward expansion.

New Game+. A way to replay past experiences and quests from the game, while remaining your actual level. There are some great solo duty and story elements that just watching them on the “Unending Journey” will not suffice. With this new feature, you will be able to jump back into different places in the MSQ to relive those events, but still retain your current level and gear.

New Dungeon, “The Grand Cosmos”. Can be done via the duty finder or with your trusts.

A new Extreme Trial! We know what the fight is, as it normally the last trial in each expansion, but giving the name away is a spoiler. So, it’s that fight with that thing that ends the MSQ of Shadowbringers in the 5.0 content. 5.1 has the extreme version of that.

New Pixie Beast Tribe Quests! A new beast tribe will become available, the first for Shadowbringers. It is a daily quest reputation grind, but it does reward with some very unique and imaginative cosmetics, minions, and also a nice, easy source for a few end game tomestones.

Blue Mage Updates! Increased Level cap, new quests, new skills, new blue-mage specific encounters.

Time to get the band together! The Performance system, where you can play music on an instrument, can now be synced up as a group!

New Housing Plots! All 4 residential districts will have wards 19-21 opened up to purchase for a house. In addition, a 2nd apartment building will become available. The new plots will start off being only available to purchase by an FC, but if they do a move, that means the old plot will become available. So if you are in the market for a new house, this may be the time to buy the house of your dreams. Right now, AIE is happy with our current housing arrangement, and we do not plan on moving.

Some UI refinements, such as glamour chest updates, duty finder ui updates (just adding your current ilevel to the duty finder window to save you a few clicks), emote sorting, sound effects when you are emote’d, and other “surprise features” that sorta just show up in the patched game.

Finally, the 5.1 Live Letter Part LV. (Brings up my roman abacus…) That’s the 55th Live Letter, will be taking place on Oct 18th at 4am PST. Remember, Square Enix is a Japaneese company. Usually, we get further details for the next patch on this 2nd Live Letter, a story and hype trailer, some unannounced game feature, and the date of the patch at the end. Please look forward to it.

Current FC news and End Game

The FC is still rocking, and we are still on Goblin in the Crystal Data Center. You are welcome to come along, play with us with a free demo account, which lets you play up to level 35 on all of the classes/jobs. To join the FC, do you need a retail account, via a retail key, steam, or on the Playstation Network for the PS4 folks out there, as this game does provide true cross play.

Without catching a sale someplace, in US Dollars…

The current end game activities in Shadowbringers does have a few raids and high-end content available to give you things to do with your gear grind.

When you finish the MSQ, you have a couple of early goals, assuming you want to work on gearing that job. If you want to roll up a new job, by all means, go for it.

First off, will be unlocking content. There are 2 additional end game dungeons and along with the last MSQ dungeon will make up the Expert Roulette, which will your fastest source of end game tomestones, the end game tokens for gear. You can pick up “The Twinning” in the Crystarium, and “Akademia Anydar” in Eulmore near the Southeast Derelicts warp crystal waypoint. Complete these two and you will have unlocked the Expert Roulette. Protip: Asking in FC chat or #ffxiv in AIE’s discord will help you get a group thru there much faster, with cooler people, and will be a much better time.

There is also the Wandering Minstrel in the Crystarium that will unlock the extreme trials for Innocence and Titania.

Also in Eulmore, you will have the vendors that will trade you items for your tomestones, tokens from end game bosses.

When you hit iLevel 425, you will be eligible to enter the normal modes of Eden, the current 8-player raids available at this time. The unlock is also in the Crystarium, and will have you do a few story quests until you can unlock the first boss. There is no trash in Eden, just bosses.

Going thru the 4 wings, for 4 bosses thru there, you will rewarded with an item that once you have enough of them can be traded in for ilevel 450 gear. Some items require more than one token, but the tooltip will show how many you need to get a piece of gear.

By completing the 4th wing, everyone will get a “Blade of Early Antiquity”, which can be aquired once a week. When you get 7 of these, and 1000 Phantasmagoria tomestones, you can turn them in for a iLevel 460 weapon.

Also, other gear items can be purchased with Phantas for iLevel 460 gear as well.

Once you complete the 4 wings and reach an average iLevel of 440, you will then be eligible to run the savage mode of the Eden raid, which is the most difficult content in the game at this time. Your reward for this content will be 470 gear, with the weapon being 475 form the last boss. Items are rolled upon, like a traditional dungeon, but if you don’t get the drop, everyone still gets a consolation prize of a book, which you can get 1 per wing, per week. When you accumulate enough, you can then turn them into the vendors in Eulmore, getting the same piece of gear that would of dropped from the dungeon. So, if the RNG aetherflows are not in your favor, you can guarantee yourself gear by continuing to clear the content over multiple weeks.

AIE does high end content twice a week. Tuesday nights at 10PM EST is what we call gearing up nights, where we do Eden normal runs to help people at least see the content, get explained the fights in a friendly environment, and overall, have a good time.

Thursday nights 10PM EST, is where we hope to do the higher end content. Extreme Trials or Savage Eden is our goal.

We do use a separate Discord server for coordination, scheduling, and raid discussion, but any AIE member can join. Just ask either Durus or Abovan an invite and we can get you on that server.

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If you have a question or comment about our show, you can email us at [email protected]. You can also follow us on Twitter. The show is at @aiepodcast. Mew is at @themewkow. Mkallah is at @cyberwaif,and Tetsemi is at @ivorytiger. We record live with video every other Sunday at 8pm Eastern/5pm Pacific. You can join the chatroom and play along with us on our website at https://aie-guild.org/podcast-live-stream/ and our Discord server for chat at https://aie-guild.info/discord . Our theme was composed by the amazing Andrew Allen, follow him at @keyswithsoul! or visit his website http://keyswithsoul.com !

And now it’s time to play all of the great AIE member segment we received this week, including…

Overly Dramatic News – @HuntsTheWind

Tetsemi: Next time, we’ll be talking to Sema and Max about AIE in SWTOR and patch 6.0. So until then, AIE…

– This is Tetsemi

And this has been… The AIE Podcast.

On this episode of The AIE Podcast…

Mkallah: Guildie Grams! Get your Guildie Grams here!

Tetsemi: the FFXIV raid team is extreme!

Mewkow: The Imperial City Celebration is FREEEE

Mkallah: October is for Onslaught!

Tetsemi: and, we have Dent to talk about AIE in Star Trek online!

All that and more coming up right now…

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No Man’s Sky

Ok, we’ll be digging into STO shortly, but first, let’s cover this week’s news…

AIE News

Community

Where the fun is mandatory but the attendance is not.

Sunday – STO 8:30 pm Eastern

Streaming and guild podcast news

SWTOR Escape Pod Cast 307: It’s Just A Phase 2

SWTOR Escape Pod Cast 307: It’s Just a Phase 2

PTS Phase 2, Onderon, Dxun and updated gearing news.

SWTOR Escape Pod Cast 308: Grinding Our Gears

SWTOR Escape Pod Cast 308: Grinding Our Gears

PTS Phase 2 updates; Troopers ready for testing; Gear system breakdown.

Working Class Nerds

https://www.buzzsprout.com/143519/1659580

Marcus and Nick sit down with fellow AIE Guildees Beaux and Corvenas to discuss the most recent changes to SWTOR’s PTS and of course the new trailer for Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker that dropped at D23!

NOMADS

WoW

results from the Trial of Style

Classic

Over 750 characters currently added. Around 900 we will look for some unplayed alts to take out to keep us to 1 guild as long as possible.

This just in

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd8wgoh91rPPaNuth1Mb9lkLX5n6fnlIBofMDs0WO2Km6R7EQ/viewform

Send someone a special message in WoW Classic with AIE Guildie Grams!

We love the spirit of community that everyone has shown in WoW Classic since launch. We want to continue this momentum going forward! There are a lot of reasons you could send a Guildie Gram:

* Someone went out of their way to help you with a quest you couldn’t have finished alone

* Thank someone for helping you with profession mats or creating an item you needed

* You heard someone was having a rough day and just wanted to make them smile

The Guildie Gram will include:

– Your personal message

– Savory Deviate Delight x 1 (A treat that turns you into a pirate or a ninja when you eat it!)

* Guildie Grams are able to be ordered by Horde members of AIE in WoW Classic on Pagle-US.

* They will be mailed 1-3 days after the order form is filled out and in game payment is received.

There are many reasons to spread kindness and positive messages with each other.

Think outside the box and send a Guildie Gram to some of your fellow AIE guildies today! <3

AIE WoW Classic Guild Photo

Tabards are encouraged but not required! All guildies are welcome

Location: TBD

We understand Classic is expensive to train talents and professions, so not everyone will have a tabard yet and that’s okay!

That being said:

If anyone *wants* to donate a tabard to be raffled off to AIE guildies that don’t have one yet, that would be awesome!

You can any tabard donations to Nevermore.

SWTOR

In the live game, September is the month of many pirates! The Pirate Incursion event will be running twice this month on Dantooine.

Guild MFNs are on Tuesdays at 9PM eastern and we alternate between Imperial and Republic sides, so everyone can come and play. September’s MEGA on the 27th is going to resurrect an OG mission to acquire the fabled Magenta Lightsaber Crystal. This is a shortish mission with some travel in between and we will be hanging out in discord and doing some Star Wars trivia as well. And who knows what else!

Also, New York Cantina is coming up fast on Oct 4th. A number of AIE people will be there, so if you fancy a night of drinks, AIEers, and possibly a little bit of game talk, you’re invited! For more info and how to connect up, jump into discord and ask.

FFXIV

Currently, AIE is running gear up nights Tuesdays at 9:30pm Eastern and progression nights at 9:30pm eastern.

No experience is necessary! If you wish to join us with more challenging content, drop us a line in the AIE Discord in the #ffxiv channel.

I’d like to add that we are interested in running level 80 map nights. To run maps nights, the first step is to… get maps. To get them organically, you need to be a level 80 gatherer, that’s miner, botanist, or fisher. They are an extra item on your gathers, and you can only get one map a day. Furthermore, you can have one map activated, one in your main bags, one map in your chocobo saddle bags, and one in each retainer.

Running maps can get you super rewards and fabulous prizes, especially when you spawn the “bonus zone”.

So, we’d love to help get maps up for map nights. It’s a super fun activity, pretty casual time, and a great time to be had by all.

ESO

And MFN is still going strong on Friday Nights at 9pm est.

EVE

LOTRO

GW2

And with that, let’s get back to Dent and find out what’s going on in STO.

GAME NEWS

Fleet projects, as normal, could use some duty officers.

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If you have a question or comment about our show, you can email us at [email protected]. You can also follow us on Twitter. The show is at @aiepodcast. Mew is at @themewkow. Mkallah is at @cyberwaif,and Tetsemi is at @ivorytiger. We record live with video every other Sunday at 8pm Eastern/5pm Pacific. You can join the chatroom and play along with us on our website at https://aie-guild.org/podcast-live-stream/ and our Discord server for chat at https://aie-guild.info/discord . Our theme was composed by the amazing Andrew Allen, follow him at @keyswithsoul! or visit his website http://keyswithsoul.com !

And now it’s time to play all of the great AIE member segment we received this week, including…

Ask Buxley – Ask Buxley

Next time, we’ll be talking to a possible surprise guest about AIE in WoW Classic. So until then, AIE…

– This is Mewkow

And this has been… The AIE Podcast.

On this episode of The AIE Podcast…

Mewkow: Everything old is new, I mean Classic again

Tetsemi: Star Wars Cantina is in New York and we’re meeting up!

Mewkow: Moonfaire is ending, but anniversary activities are just starting

Tetsemi: Want to captain that Romulan ship? Now you can!

Mewkow: Farmer’s Faire is starting and we’re invading

All that and more coming up right now…

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AIE News

Streaming and guild podcast news

PvP season details, level sync feedback, and bounty hunter abilities.

SWTOR Escape Pod Cast 306: The Mats Go To 11

PTS Heraldry updates, achievements and feats of strength, and a first look at crafting.

Working Class Nerds

Nick and Marcus sit down with author of the “This Week In Aurebesh” blog, Intisar! The guys spotlight Intisar’s novel Star Wars-themed blog, and get into some Star Wars predictions, and conspiracy theories!

Max>> Guild streaming options update… Discord has added live streaming right into the client. It shares your game screen and puts you and anyone that clicks in to “view” into voice to chat. Keep an eye out for the “live” red icon in the voice channels if you want to check it out. (again note… you will be dropped into voice )

NOMADS

No Man’ Sky has been updated this month with to No Man’s Sky Beyond. Hello Games, the developer, has referred to it as No Man’s Sky 2.0. Most of the game systems have been updated or revamped to improve the player experience. Some of the bigger additions to the game are:

VR Support

Dent and Corley are currently searching for a planet that can be used for a community planet where players can build bases, trade, and help each other out in the game. If you played No Man’s Sky when the game first came out, but were disappointed, give it a try now. You might find that things that you didn’t like, have been improved or updated. Post in the Nomads channel if you want to join up in game.

Max>> I played the update some last weekend and can comment if useful.

WoW

Gustytail and friends will form groups to queue for the Trial, where you are given a theme and have mere minutes to select the best outfit from every item you’ve equipped… ever. Then we take turns voting on whose turned out best. Being in a Guild group gives us the chance to help everyone get top honors while still having a great time. We’ll run Sat, Aug 31 from 4-6 pm eastern and Sun, Sept 1 from 10 to 11:30pm eastern and again on Tues, Sept 3 from 8-11pm eastern. I will do additional runs if there’s interest. Let’s get out there and be Fabulous!

Noob raid is also 5/8 in Palace

WoW Classic – https://aie-guild.org/blog/2019/08/wow-classic-launch-details-for-aie/

SWTOR

ESO

FFXIV

* Join the FFXIV gang in Discord voice chat. There are people on everyday.

Check out the following AIE FFXIV streamers at:

STO

https://www.arcgames.com/en/games/star-trek-online/news/detail/11240193-command-a-romulan-ship-on-any-captain%21

Very soon, Captains among the ranks of the Federation, Klingon, and Dominion factions will be gaining access to most of the Romulan Republic’s fierce fleet of starships. This includes many legendary Warbirds, and a number of other Romulan starships. Though these vessels have been restricted up until now, the galaxy is heading in a direction of increased cooperation and sharing of technology, and the Republic has been benefiting from those arrangements for some time. Their leadership has decided it’s time enough to return the trust that has been shown to them, and allow their trusted allies the

EVE

GW2

After Sept. 3rd, there will be the not well named “Expansion Boost Special Event”. It does not mean there is a new expansion, it will however give double XP for mastery progression for the existing expansions.

More significantly, Arenanet has a big live announcement coming up on August 30th. This will probably be about the new Living World season coming up, but they have surprised us before with extras.

LOTRO

Max>>I was in with LotRO MFN this weekend and can mention that.

And with that, let’s get back to Sema and Max and find out what’s going on in AIE in SWTOR.

GAME NEWS

The double xp event is over now, but it helped a lot of folks reach their goals in Summer of 300, while some are waiting until the night before to finish up….

The New York Cantina has been announced for October 4th from 7-10 Eastern to coincide with New York Comic Con. There will be some AIE folks there, so if you are looking for an East Coast meetup, this could be the one! For more info about connecting up with AIE people there, come and ask in the AIE discord – swtor channel.

August MEGA was this past weekend and it was a great night of cat-herding, grappling, extricating, datacron-getting and some pretty epic chat. Fun times!

6.0 notes for reference – Onslaught (expansion title)

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@MaxTheGrey

If you have a question or comment about our show, you can email us at [email protected]. You can also follow us on Twitter. The show is at @aiepodcast. Mew is at @themewkow. Mkallah is at @cyberwaif,and Tetsemi is at @ivorytiger. We record live with video every other Sunday at 8pm Eastern/5pm Pacific. You can join the chatroom and play along with us on our website at https://aie-guild.org/podcast-live-stream/ and our Discord server for chat at https://aie-guild.info/discord . Our theme was composed by the amazing Andrew Allen, follow him at @keyswithsoul! or visit his website http://keyswithsoul.com !

And now it’s time to play all of the great AIE member segment we received this week, including…

Overly Dramatic News – @HuntsTheWind

Next time, we’ll be talking to either EvE or STO. So until then, AIE…

– This is Tetsemi

And this has been… The AIE Podcast.

On this episode of The AIE Podcast…

Tetsemi: WoW AIE Alliance is recruiting (that still sounds suspect)

All that and more coming up right now…

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Ok, we’ll be digging into Elder Scrolls Online shortly, but first, let’s cover this week’s news..

AIE News

Community

Mandatory Fun Nights (Just for notes again)

Where the fun is mandatory but the attendance is not.

Sunday – STO 8:30 pm Eastern

Summer of Love – https://aie-guild.org/blog/2019/07/summer-of-love-2019/

Streaming and guild podcast news

SWTOR Escape Pod Cast 301: Peace Is A Lie On Dantooine

5.10.4 update, peace time on Dantooine, and companions fixed(?!) are the main topics of conversation this week for @AIESema, @MaxTheGrey and Astromech EPC-301. Also covered are a bit of game, community and guild news.

SWTOR Escape Pod Cast 302: Sdcc And Live Stream

San Diego Comic Con Cantina, Developer Live Stream, and a live PTS. These topics and more this week from @AIESema, @MaxTheGrey and Astromech EPC-302

Working Class Nerds Episode 49

Marcus and Nick talk about their recent gaming adventures and SWTOR’s game update 5.10.4 on the eve of Marcus’s surgery to repair…. something! Listen in to find out what out what he did to hurt himself!

WoW

While we await the Classic launch and grind Mechagon dailies, Maynard thought it would be fun to see which classes AIE is considering. They might do another survey after launch to see how it changes. Link is in the show notes and in the WOW channel of Discord.

Summer of Love

Wednesday July 31st

Friday August 2nd

Saturday August 3rd

Sunday August 4th

SWTOR

The PTS is live-ish now. Jump in and try the proposed changes to inquisitors and warriors for Onslaught which is coming in October.

Our Summer of 300 event just got a huge shot in the arm with the start of a month-long double xp event!

AIE Summer of Love was officially kicked off in SWTOR with a special MEGA event. Not only that, but it was MEGA’s one year anniversary! Marcus entertained the crowd with trivia and prizes contributed by ElionD, Maellung, and Zen as we took on the Ancient Threat on Yavin IV. Many awesome screen shots were taken of us on the beach of Rishi. Check back later for screenshots of us by that vanquished boss….

This week, MFN will be a special SoL version that should be accessible to characters of all levels. Just to be safe, make sure you do have a ship, though

Summer of Love

Saturday July 27th

Tuesday July 30th

Friday August 2nd

FFXIV

Wednesday July 31st

Friday August 2nd

STO

Sunday July 28th

Friday August 2nd

EVE

Friday August 2nd

GW2

Monday July 29th

Thursday August 1st

Friday August 2nd

LOTRO

Friday August 2nd

Saturday August 3rd

And with that, let’s get back to Kini and Sparrow and find out what’s going on in Elder Scrolls Online.

GAME NEWS

Friday August 2nd 9:00pm EST

The Season of the Dragon will continue with Scalebreaker DLC and the Update 23 patch. August 12 for PC and Mac and on August 27 for PS4 and Xbox One (announced at Quakecon). It will have 2 new dungeons as well as quality of life improvements for the base game. it features a prologue quest with the return of Sai Sahan, even if the manner of such return is still unknown. And dragons will be moving out of Elswyr in the future.

Checking out the new dungeons as a group will be scheduled for the first MFN after Scalebreaker launches. Our MFN adventures tend to vary between zone clears for Skyshards, random dungeon queuing, and daily quests for specific in game events depending on what the group wants to do.

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And that’s our show for tonight. While the chatroom begins suggesting show titles, we want to thank Kini and Sparrow for joining us. And don’t forget, after the show is the AIE podcast stream, this week they are doing:

Kini – I live stream MFN for ESO and Noob Raid in WoW every week at https://www.twitch.tv/dankinia and I am @dankinia on twitter if anyone would like to follow my ramblings.

If you have a question or comment about our show, you can email us at [email protected]. You can also follow us on Twitter. The show is at @aiepodcast. Mew is at @themewkow. Mkallah is at @cyberwaif,and Tetsemi is at @ivorytiger. We record live with video every other Sunday at 8pm Eastern/5pm Pacific. You can join the chatroom and play along with us on our website at https://aie-guild.org/podcast-live-stream/ and our Discord server for chat at https://aie-guild.info/discord . Our theme was composed by the amazing Andrew Allen, follow him at @keyswithsoul! or visit his website http://keyswithsoul.com !

And now it’s time to play all of the great AIE member segment we received this week, including…

Once again, the mailbox was empty, but if you’d like to have a segment played on the show, please send it in to [email protected].

Next time, we’ll be talking to Marcus about the AIE Community. So until then, AIE…

– This is Mkallah

And this has been… The AIE Podcast.

On this episode of The AIE Podcast…

Mkallah: We have your Summer of Love 2019 schedule

Tetsemi: We love the Night Life and want to boogie on Nar Shaddaa

Mewkow: and when you are done, head on down to Risa

Mkallah: Paranoia and space blackouts in EVE

Tetsemi: And we have Abovan (and possibly Durus) here to talk about AIE in FFXIV

All that and more coming up right now…

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AIE News

Community

Sunday – STO 8:30 pm Eastern

Summer of Love Events

Sunday July 28th

Monday July 29th

Tuesday July 30th

Wednesday July 31st

Thursday August 1st

Friday August 2nd

9:00pm EST ESO MFN – Special Edition

Saturday August 3rd

Sunday August 4th

Streaming and guild podcast news

SWTOR Escape Pod Cast 299: Tactical Insertion

This week @AIESema, @MaxTheGrey and Astromech EPC-299 talk through the first couple 6.0 class updates and the ability, set bonuses and tactical items that have been described in the forums. We also talked about our plans for Episode 300 which will be next week on 7/9, Star Forge, Guild Discord, 8pm central pre-show party and discussion, 9pm live recording session.

SWTOR Escape Pod Cast 300: Long Strange Trip

Friends of the show wouldn’t let us have episode 300 go by without some kind of acknowledgement, so we spend this show looking back at the last 5+ years of SWTOR, the podcast and our guild and then bring on the instigators of this party for mini-interviews. Thank you to Marcus, Intisar, Sten, Corley, Dent, Maellung, Bcavanagh!

Working Class Nerds 48

Marcus and Nick begin the first of several episodes highlighting their favorite Game Development Studios! This episode they talk about their the good, the bad, and the ugly from Bethesda.

WoW

We are doing COOP for Summer of Love and for the first time ever AIE will officially be on both sides, attackers and defenders!!!!

SWTOR

The Bounty Contract and Pirate Incursion events will be coming this summer as well. The Pirate Incursion, in particular, is very good for command experience.

In SWTOR guild news, we are in the middle of our Summer of 300. Several guildies are working on getting to command level 300 on all 8 classes, because that achievement is being moved to a Feat of Strength in October. Come and report your progress as we run around the Galaxy doing important stuff during MFN on Tuesdays nights. Or just drop a note in discord to let everyone know how it’s going.

July MEGA is going to be on July 27th and will kick off AIE’s Summer of Love for 2019. We are going to Yavin IV to kill the Ancient Threat. This is a summonable boss that many people have never seen, so be sure to attend!

STO

Ythe guild fun nights on Sunday nights have focused on getting some of the currency for the updated cosmetic rewards.

The T6 Risian Corvette is the ship available this year, which is pretty cool: https://pwimages-a.akamaihd.net/arc/7a/96/7a96af30b96451d6cebd5df9bcac2cc91561079244.png

ESO

EVE

LOTRO

During SNL (MFN) we took down 2 of the 3 wings of the Great Barrows.

GW2

Balance patch out soon. Much weeping and wailing, judging by the early release notes.

And with that, let’s get back to Abovan (and Durus) and find out what’s going on in FFXIV.

GAME NEWS

ABOVAN Activity

Some metrics for activity taken on 7/11

Last 30 days 81 Unique characters logged in.

Current membership sits at 114 characters.

Many of the current players of the game have or are wrapping up the MSQ for Shadowbringers. For those that have, they are all saying that it is such a wonderful and emotional experience, and with it being one of the best Final Fantasy stories told.

Durus – I’M HERE!

DURUS Plot Overview

DURUS Gameplay

At the time of this recording, Sunday, 7/14, we have the following instanced content.

8 Four player dungeons

We will be getting new content soon. The dates are approximate and subject to change, but this is what we have to work with right now.

ABOVAN Tue Maintenance / Content Update

On July 30th we are expecting to get Eden Savage, which is the harder mode for raiders. Also, this is when we will be getting Tomestones of Phantasmagoria, which will be the high end game currency for the time being. Finally, we will also be getting a new dungeon, Lyhe Ghiah, which will be our 9th 4 player dungeon.

So, these are being added to the already impressive 126 already existing dungeons, trials and raids in the game.

DURUS AIE Schedule

Tuesday/Thursday (11:30 – 2:30am EST) – XFN – X-treme Nights!

Wednesday – 9:00pm EST – Mandatory Fun Night

Friday – 11:00pm EST – Mandatory Fun Night

These are the events that AIE will be doing each week. This does not mean that members can’t create their own groups, staics, or raid teams.

It’s acceptable for any AIE member to create their own group, with their own schedules, culture, loot, rules, etc.

One more time for the people listening in the back!

ABOVAN ANY AIE member can create their own group, with their own schedules, culture, loot, rules, etc,

These events, and any other player events can be added the AIE calendar, which is found at https://wiki.aie-guild.org/index.php?title=Guild_Calendar. Contact an FFXIV game officer with the details.

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@abovan

If you have a question or comment about our show, you can email us at [email protected]. You can also follow us on Twitter. The show is at @aiepodcast. Mew is at @themewkow. Mkallah is at @cyberwaif,and Tetsemi is at @ivorytiger. We record live with video every other Sunday at 8pm Eastern/5pm Pacific. You can join the chatroom and play along with us on our website at https://aie-guild.org/podcast-live-stream/ and our Discord server for chat at https://aie-guild.info/discord . Our theme was composed by the amazing Andrew Allen, follow him at @keyswithsoul! or visit his website http://keyswithsoul.com !

And now it’s time to play all of the great AIE member segment we received this week, including…

Well, nothing this week, but we are always looking for member segments.

Next time, we’ll be talking to Dankinia in ESO. So until then, AIE…

– This is Mewkow

And this has been… The AIE Podcast.

On this episode of The AIE Podcast…

Mewkow: We have a new victim….. We mean officer.

Mkallah: Wow, come join AIE for new stuff to do in WoW

Tetsemi: It’s the Summer of 300

Mewkow: Shadowbringers is Semi-live and it’s good!

Mkallah: SO MUCH GAME NEWS!

All that and more coming up right now…

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AIE News

Summer of Love week for AIE will be starting around 7/28 and running to 8/4 with 8/2 reserved as the annual Remembrance Day. Guild fun events in almost all our games and divisions are being planned for that week and a full schedule and details will be published on the guild blog soon!

Community

Sunday – STO 8:30 pm Eastern

Streaming and guild podcast news

This week @AIESema, @MaxTheGrey and Astromech EPC-297 explain what the heck we meant in our answers to our Content Creator interview with Daniel Steed that was published on swtor.com on Thursday.

SWTOR Escape Pod Cast 298: Summer Of 300

This week @AIESema, @MaxTheGrey and Astromech EPC-297 kick off the Summer of 300 where we work to get the last few of our 8 classes to CXP Rank 300 before those achievements are retired when 6.0 launches. We talk tips and tricks for getting that sweet CXP.

Episode 47: Does E3 Rhyme with PvP?

Marcus and Nick are joined by fellow AIE Guildies Medullah and Nezzir to talk about what they’re excited for that they saw at this year’s E3 conference, as well as the current and upcoming states of PvP in SWTOR.

NOMADS

WoW

Noob raid killed Rastakhan last night, which was a first for a couple attendees

Patch 8.2 dropped opening up Mechagon and Najazatar for questing and story!

Increase your power with Benthic gear, new upgradable armor that can now be collected in Nazjatar.

Defeating powerful enemies, completing quests, and plundering the treasures of Azshara’s minions may yield Prismatic Manapearls. Spend this new currency on many different items within Nazjatar including Benthic tokens and upgrades for Benthic gear, pets, and a mount.

After establishing a hub in Nazjatar and empowering their Heart of Azeroth, players will make their way to Mechagon by starting the quest “The Legend of Mechagon,” which can be accepted by Alliance players in Boralus and Horde players in Dazar’alor near each city’s respective Flight Masters.

Junkyard Tinkering

Pocket-Sized Computation Device

Level 120 players will unite with Prince Erazmin and the Rustbolt Resistance to help overthrow his deranged father and destroy his Mechoriginator doomsday device in this new 8-boss “mega-dungeon.”

Heart of Azeroth System Update: Essences

Mount Equipment

New Quests

New Epic Battleground: Ashran

New War Mode Event: The Battle for Nazjatar

New Island Expeditions

New Missions and Mechanics

As you take the fight to the seas, your loyal followers will be with you every step of the way. You can now enlist Boat Captains and other skilled seafarers to fight your battles.

The once-forbidden skies of Kul Tiras and Zandalar will soon be open to heroes eager to take flight. The achievement Battle for Azeroth Pathfinder, Part Two will allow daring adventurers to take to the skies in Battle for Azeroth’s zones, including in the new ones, Mechagon and Nazjatar. Unlock flying will also be rewarded with a mechanical parrot mount: Wonderwing 2.0.

New Mounts

FFXIV

Broad story notes without spoilers – Shadowbringers is…gasp…darker in tone. Remember all that talk of morally grey story we heard a while back? I think we found it in FF14. Unlike the usual MSQ on rails experience, you are given some options of what order to run tasks in as you explore the new maps. There is a ton of great lore about the universe the game is in, with some holes being filled, and even bigger holes being opened up as you play the story. Rumor has it the first dungeon has some big reveals.

New classes: The second hand reports I’ve gotten are that Dancer is a ton of fun to play, and you might forget this is a ranged class, and a support class at that. It definitely aligns itself with the Bard and the Machinist as far as they work in a party.

New races: There is a Flood of…bunnies it seems. It is possible that the majority race is no longer the miqote, as the Viera is very obviously everywhere. The hrothgar is available as well, though not as popular yet. Rumor is that both races have little reason to use the Aesthetician(hair dresser) as their hair is tied to their face, meaning it will require another fantasia to change that out.

Catchup: If you are new to the game, it is highly recommended you play through the entire story at least once, otherwise, there are now class level to 70 skips and ‘straight to Shadowbringers’ story skips available for purchase with your real life money in the mog station. The new classes are not represented in the level skips, as they start at level 60. Those playing the new expansion will still be interacting with those players that are in the older content, so there is no worry that you are being left behind.

SWTOR

ESO

EVE

STO

Lifetime Subscription Sale!

We are working on two Fleet holdings, the Spire and Colony.

MFN is tonight 8:30 Eastern.

GW2

Please contribute to the guild hall so we can get this coolest of decorations.

LOTRO

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If you have a question or comment about our show, you can email us at [email protected]. You can also follow us on Twitter. The show is at @aiepodcast. Mew is at @themewkow. Mkallah is at @cyberwaif,and Tetsemi is at @ivorytiger. We record live with video every other Sunday at 8pm Eastern/5pm Pacific. You can join the chatroom and play along with us on our website at https://aie-guild.org/podcast-live-stream/ and our Discord server for chat at https://aie-guild.info/discord . Our theme was composed by the amazing Andrew Allen, follow him at @keyswithsoul! or visit his website http://keyswithsoul.com !

And now it’s time to play all of the great AIE member segment we received this week, including…

Ask Buxley – @AskBuxley

Next time, we’ll be talking to Abovan and Durus about AIE in FFXIV. So until then, AIE…

– This is Tetsemi

And this has been… The AIE Podcast.

On this episode of The AIE Podcast…

Mewkow: The Incursion is on…. Dantooine

Tetsemi: Countdown to Shadowbringers!

Mkallah: Upgrade Detected!

Mewkow: The Summer of Love is almost upon us!

Tetsemi: And we have Syreyne and Harruq who are here to talk to us about AIE in WOW!

All that and more coming up right now…

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AIE News

Community

Sunday – STO 8:30 pm Eastern

Streaming and guild podcast news

SWTOR Escape Pod Cast 295: Onslaught Of Information

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SWTOR Escape Pod Cast 296: Pirate Recursion

This week @AIESema, @MaxTheGrey and Astromech EPC-296 talk all about how the Dantooine Pirate event has been going and what our plans are for week 2.

Episode 46: Norman’s Night In: The Cave (Part Deux)

Nick and Marcus are joined by Nick Iorfino from Bactrian Games, the creators Norman’s Night In: The Cave! Mr. Iorfino talks about what it’s like to develop WCN’s favorite game from Pax East, and the hosts also breakdown SWTOR’s changes in game update 5.10.3 Spoils of War.

WoW

SWTOR

There are a number of achievements associated with stuff on Dantooine as well. The planet will be available for exploration and possibly even resource gathering after the event is over, but we don’t know exactly what that will look like until next week. Some of those achievements may be doable then, or may require the event to be in progress. We shall see! After this week, the pirate event will go in rotation with all the existing events.

In guild news, the June MEGA was a pvp night hosted by Marcus and coached by guildie Medullah. Medullah explained the pvp maps and gave insights into what to look for, when to use abilities, and lots of other good info. We used SWTOR’s feature that allows us to have our own instance of a warzone to duke it out between two teams of guildies. We even had a small cheering section. We closed the night with a tour of guildie Liberty’s Stronghold which was really incredible to see. Marcus wants to make Stronghold viewing a staple of MEGA, so if you’d like your Stronghold to be featured, just let him know.

MFN continues on Tuesday nights, starting at 9PM Eastern. This week we ran around on Dantooine and did some grouping up for the heroics.

In ops news after 6 months of working on Dread Fortress Hard Mode Deathstar Troopers we finally killed Brontes.

Also, SUP has cleared five ops and counting, and apparently they’re having more fun than MarcusB. I sense an operation throwdown coming …

Also, great shout out for the Escape Pod Cast on the front page of the SWTOR official site

ESO

FFXIV

Launch Schedule!

July 2nd – Official Launch of the game. Just in time for the July 4th Holiday for our U.S. members. If you didn’t pre-order, then this is when you will get access to the game.

In Approximately 2 weeks after that, July 16th(ish) –

Another about 2 weeks again…

New expansion features are many, and to hear about those, may I invite you to listen to the last few AIE podcasts, as we dived deep into them for the last few episodes.

But quick recap. New worlds, level cap raised for all jobs to 80 including crafting and gathering jobs, new jobs in Gunbreaker and Dancer, and Machinist got a full rework.

FFXIV is a story first MMO. Meaning, to get to the content organically, you do need to play though the previous MSQ (Main Story Questline) to unlock that content. This includes the base game, “A Realm Reborn” (purchased via the Starter Edition), “Heavensward” (Free to add to your account until June 27th), and then “Stormblood”, which is available via the Stormblood expansion until July 28th, in which it will be part of the Shadowbringers purchase.

Story skips and level skips will be available soon if you want to fork over the cash to get you caught up to Stormblood.

Getting into AIE for FFXIV has never been easier! No UMAMI! No level requirement, and no factions to worry about. Just roll up a character on Goblin, in the Crystal datacenter. Drop down into the AIE discord channel for FFXIV, oddly named #ffxiv, and ask for an invite and one of our happy officers will extend a Free Company (guild) invite over to you.

Membership has been way up since the announcement of Shadowbringers, and has been growing steadily since then. Now, you may be thinking, but what about newer players or people not at Shadowbringers yet? Well, never fret, as the leveling queues will still match up people looking to do their MSQ dungeons or just the leveling queue in general. Furthermore, we have been having some success with two Mandatory Fun Nights a week, Wednesday at 9pm EST and Friday at 11pm EST. If you need something done, that’s a great time to request it to be done. Otherwise, just asking in discord and /fc chat to have some AIE folks join you in your adventures is more than welcome.

Goblin is now a preferred server, meaning if you start up a new character on Goblin, you will get the road to 60 buff, which is a 3x XP buff on all sources, all jobs, up to level 60. This includes all adventure jobs, crafting, and gathering jobs as well.

STO

Hmmmm what else….MFN is every Sunday at 8:30 pm Eastern.

And with that, let’s get back to Syreyne and Harruq and find out what’s going on in WoW.

GAME NEWS

Looks for input as to which side and what type of server.

WoW Battle for Azeroth –

Burning Crusade Timewalking starts Tuesday.

Alliance Guild Update –

The Alliance raid team is 4/9 in Normal BFD and we have voted on an official team name. HFO = Hell Froze Over. We raid on Friday nights from 8pm server/Eastern to 11pm. We are recruiting and accepting cross-faction friends.

Due to the generosity of some members, we were able to purchase the 7th bank tab. We used that to have the raid team join the official Raid Bank Tab system.

AIE Summer of Love –

https://wiki.aie-guild.org/index.php?title=Milliway

CLOSE

Mkallah: And that’s our show for tonight. While the chatroom begins suggesting show titles, we want to thank Syreyne and Harruq for joining us.

Twitter: @SyreyneAIE

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And now it’s time to play all of the great AIE member segment we received this week, including…

Ask Buxley – @AskBuxley

Mkallah: Next time, we’ll be talking to Abovan in Final Fantasy 14!. So until then, AIE…

– This is Mkallah

And this has been… The AIE Podcast.